‘The Walking Dead’ Universe About To Expand

The first film will explore where Rick was taken and “what he faces in the new corner of the zombie apocalypse,” AMC said.

“It’s not the beginning of the end, it’s the end of the beginning. And I like the idea that we get to tell a bigger story, maybe with a sort of wider vista,” Lincoln said on “The Talking Dead,” AMC’s after-show about the zombie hit. “I’ve always been interested in what’s going on out there, you know, whether or not there is contact with the wider world.”

Gimple called the films a “big evolutions of what we’ve been doing on the show.”

“We want to break new ground with different, distinct stories, all part of the same world that’s captured our imagination for nearly a decade of the Dead,” Gimple said in a statement.